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  -- John Kea...
• A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. John Kea
• No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. -- Jamaican Proverb
• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. American Proverb
• Quote #95 Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
  -- Olivier Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again....
• Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. Spanish Proverb
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. French Proverb
• A man will be a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy till she becomes your wife.
  -- Al Bundy, (Married With Children)...